Tina Krause | |
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Born | Cristina Krause [1] July 29, 1970 |
Occupation(s) | Film actress Film director Film producer |
Years active | 1994–present |
Tina Krause (born July 29, 1970) is an American film actress, producer, director, and model. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Referred to as a 'B Movie Queen', [6] and an 'Indie Horror Queen', [7] the bulk of her film work has been with shoestring-budget independent producers of horror films and erotic spoofs. In an interview at Horror Society, she states that she was "discovered" at Chiller Theatre and has been acting "ever since". [3] [8] [9] Her first feature was Sorority Slaughter in 1994. By the time she was in her 30s, she had become a "huge fan favorite". [2]
Krause has appeared in over 78 independent, direct-to-video features, including Penny Dreadful , The Drunken Dead Guy, The Thirsting, Zombiegeddon , and Play Dead. [10] She also worked several times with RedLetterMedia, including on The Recovered, Feeding Frenzy, and The Grabowskis. [11] She has also done some fetish modeling, sometimes under the stage name Mia Copia. [12] She is in Horrotica which began its principal filming in the New York–New Jersey area in June 2009. [13] In 2011 she portrayed Sally in Richard Chandler's Christmas comedy film Scrooge in the Hood, which is a parody of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol . [14] In 2015 she starred alongside fellow scream queens Erika Smith and Rachael Robbins in The Fappening. [15]
In their review of the film Thirsting (aka Lilith), Sci-Fi Universe wrote, "Most actresses are unknown. Only Tina Krause has earned a solid reputation, particularly through her performances in films produced by rogues fantastic Seduction Cinema". [18]
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